All over the world people are worried about the economy, and now some say that the recent downfall could kill the Blu-ray format.
Blu-ray defeated HD DVD after this year's CES and immediately analysts worried whether the surviving format could continue after the wounds inflicted by the war.
Now a worldwide economic crisis awaits the format. If it's true that many won't dare to spend money in the coming months, we can expect the Blu-ray Disc Association to feel this in its pockets.
At Technologizer.com they state that consumers will "close their pocketbooks for the foreseeable future", and therefore not spend high amounts on fancy Blu-ray players. Blu-ray players were a hard sell, but still many research firms forecasted a bright future.
Although analysts recently dropped their Blu-ray sales prediction with 25%, and the economy is shrinking, there hasn't been an official announcement from the Association yet.
If it's true that Blu-ray was a hard sell in a decent economy, it probably stays the same during the current economic downfall. Are there people here that actually planned to buy a Blu-ray player, but recently decided not to do so?
